 ... him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think...  The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets - Page 161813Full view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular panages in them, •and forming a judgment from thence of...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhing excellence of each: It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition pofition of particular paflages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in '-proportion to his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...endiefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opppfition of particular paflages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition petition of particular pafTages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal chara&er and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing .eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paflages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal charafter and diltinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paffages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal characler and diftinguifh'd excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by ah. eppolition of particular paffages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal diat-after and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in tliat we are to confider him, and in proportion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paflfages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal charafter and diftinguiming excellence of each : it is in that we are to conf:der him, and in proportion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 462 pages
...of the principal charafter and diftinguiming excellence of each i it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that .we are to admire him. No author or man evv excelled led all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in Invention,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paffages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diilinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his... | |
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